I have an amazing sleep apart from waking myself and Simon up with a nightmare. In the dream I am in a dungeon trying to escape being killed by a king and I am lying on a stone plinth. To my left is the small space I crawled through into the dungeon and a shaft of light coming through it, one of the king's knights crawls through to get me and lying on my back I make 'mummy' noises to scare him away. I also try to lift my hands and arms but fail. This would ...

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Laszlo has told us that today we will be bird watching, but after breakfast we had to a local kindergarten to watch him give a presentation about environmental conservation to about 40 children, who all watch the pictures of wildlife and listen to Laszlo very attentively. It's great seeing Laszlo in action and he laughs along with the kids in Hungarian which obviously we cannot understand. We admire some of the arts and crafts the children have done before ha...

A full day's work this one; breakfast at 8:30 and then straight back to the butterfly house to continue our digging. Having had a good 10 hours sleep I feel ready for a hard day's graft BTCV style and get properly stuck into levelling the soil once again for the path inside the butterfly house, despite some initial confusion and a smattering of painting. Simon, Kate and Stef see a swallow tail butterfly and take photos and I tuck in to an 11:00 beer with my shi...

Getting up for breakfast of eggs, cheese and radishes in the pouring rain is not something I was looking forward to, but on the way to Select we see a bunch of May beetles (or cock-chafers as Simon finds out they are also called). We head back home afterwards and I write postcards and listen to music whilst the others have a small nap until 11:20. Then Laszlo comes and whisks us away to a nearby town famous for its salt mine and we start work just past the gaud...